For the past several years, Russian and American officials have been trying to agree on a post-START-1 arrangement - but with little progress.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

It is a rare, large-scale display of popular unease with Russian politics post-Yeltsin.

FORBES: Russia Besieged By Protesters

"Russian rock songwriting at its best has been very specific to Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet culture, " said Peter Varshavsky, who heads the San Francisco-based label Porto Franco Records and has represented Russian rock bands.

WSJ: A Russian Band Looks for a Home Abroad

The predictable result was confirmed in a front-page article in Sunday's Washington Post about Russian-Iranian missile cooperation over the past decade: The recipients of such information were generally more interested in ascertaining -- and terminating -- the ways in which it was obtained than in ending their proliferation activities.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: No ��Need to Know'